Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact. His most recent book is "America: The Farewell Tour" (2019).
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Views Monday, April 19, 2021 The Collapse of the American Empire America's defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the first Gulf War, fought largely by mechanized units in the open desert that did not—wisely—attempt to occupy Iraq, the United States political... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 22, 2021 The Evil Within Us: Evangelicals and Mass Murder in Atlanta Robert Aaron Long, 21, charged with murdering eight victims, six of whom were Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, told police that he carried out the killings to eliminate the temptations that fed his sexual addiction. His church, Crabapple First Baptist Church, in Milton, Georgia,... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 12, 2021 The American Rescue Plan Does Not Address the Deep-Rooted Inequality Killing Us The established ruling elites know there is a crisis. They agreed, at least temporarily, to throw money at it with the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 bill known as American Rescue Plan (ARP). But the ARP will not alter the structural inequities, either by raising the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour or... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 02, 2021 The Age of Social Murder The two million deaths that have resulted from the ruling elites mishandling of the global pandemic will be dwarfed by what is to follow. The global catastrophe that awaits us, already baked into the ecosystem from the failure to curb the use of fossil fuels and animal agriculture, presage new,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 02, 2021 The Oligarchy Knows Class Warfare Is the Real Fight—Why Don't Liberals? The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. It will not be halted with the 42 executive orders signed by Joe Biden, however welcome many are, especially since they can, with a new chief executive, be immediately revoked. It will not be halted by removing Donald Trump,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 05, 2021 The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange Shortly after WikiLeaks released the Iraq War Logs in October 2010, which documented numerous US war crimes — including video images of the gunning down of two Reuters journalists and 10 other unarmed civilians in the Collateral Murder video , the routine torture of Iraqi prisoners, the covering up... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 21, 2020 The Dangerous Fantasy of Hope Rooted in Self-Delusion Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and Christian fascists are sullenly preparing to leave office. U.S. pharmaceutical corporations are starting to disseminate vaccines to mitigate the globe’... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 09, 2020 In the End We Will All Pay for the Cowardice of the Liberal Class Liberals who express dismay, or more bizarrely a fevered hope, about the corporatists and imperialists selected to fill the positions in the Biden administration are the court jesters of our political burlesque. They long ago sold their soul and abandoned their most basic principles to line up... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 23, 2020 Here's the Truth: The Oligarchy Loves This Democratic Decay and Politics of Lies Joe Biden’s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party’s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising US elections. The Biden victory, the Democratic Party leaders and their courtiers in the media now insist, is evidence that the democratic process is strong and untainted... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 05, 2020 America Is Now a Corpse Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the interests of the rich and however hostile it was to the poor and minorities, the capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse. The... Read more |